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Saturday, April 15, 2017

Why Saturday Is Dedicated to Our Lady

Why Saturday Is Dedicated to Our Lady

Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

We know that Friday is the day that reminds us of the death of Our Lord,
and Sunday recalls His Resurrection. The question rises: Why is
Saturday dedicated to Our Lady? I received the following information
that I pass on to you and then comment on it afterward.

Biographical selection:

Our Lady alone maintained faith in the Resurrection

Devotion to Our Lady received a strong boost at the beginning of the
10th century with the monastic reform that gave shape to Medieval
Civilization.

After that epoch it became the general custom to dedicate Saturday to
Our Lady. St. Hugh, Abbot of Cluny, ordered that in the abbeys and
monasteries of his Order the Office should be sung and a Mass celebrated
in honor of Mary Most Holy on Saturdays. A special Mass was composed in
her honor for those occasions. To the regular Divine Office, Pope Urban
II added the Small Office of Our Lady to be sung on Saturdays.

There are many reasons why Saturday should be dedicated to the Most Holy
Virgin. The best known grew from the particular devotion the medieval
man had to the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The Gospels tell
us that after the death of Our Lord, the Apostles, disciples and Holy
Women did not believe in the Resurrection, even though Our Lord had
predicted it various times.

Thus, from the hour that Our Lord died on the Cross on Good Friday until
the Sunday of the Resurrection, only Our Lady believed in His Divinity
and, therefore, only she had perfect faith. For, as St. Paul says:
“Without the resurrection our faith would be vain.” On that Saturday,
therefore, on the whole earth only she personified the Catholic Church.
For this reason medieval man honored her especially on this day.

Comments of Prof. Plinio:

This explanation could not be more beautiful. I believe, however, it is
an exaggeration to say that the Holy Women and the Apostle St. John lost
the faith on that day. But they did not have faith in the Resurrection.

The Holy Women could not conceive of the Ressurection of Our Lord

Despite the fact that Our Lord spoke of His Resurrection several times,
they did not fully comprehend it. Indeed, a resurrection is such an
extraordinary thing, so opposed to the natural order, that the human
mind is not inclined to believe in it. Even though Our Lord had raised
Lazarus from death – and they had witnessed that miracle – they did not
realize that the One who had resurrected Lazarus could resurrect
Himself.

It is almost inconceivable for a man to raise a dead man to life; yet it
is more difficult to imagine a dead man resurrecting himself. How can a
man - through his own power – rise from the deep abyss of death and say
to his own soul: “Now, re-enter your body and be one with it”? This
demands a much greater power than the one needed to resurrect a dead
man. It is one victory on top of another, one splendor multiplied by
another, a thing, normally speaking, that the human mind cannot imagine.

We can understand, then, how those who surrounded Our Lady at the foot
of the Cross – St. John, the Holy Women and a few others such as
Nicodemus – would also accompany her to her house in that hour of
supreme sorrow. But they did not truly believe that Christ would rise
from death. Our Lady knew and trusted that He would rise from death; the
others did not.

Even though they had a supernatural instinct telling them that the
history of Our Lord had not yet ended, and that a final word remained to
be said, it was only the presence of Our Lady that confirmed them in
this instinct, not their faith in the Resurrection. Without this
instinct and without Our Lady they would have dispersed completely. When
the Gospels report the reaction of St. Mary Magdalene talking to Our
Lord after He had risen, they show that she was not expecting Him to
rise.

In her greatest desolation, she never lost hope in His promise

During this period, only Our Lady believed in the Resurrection. Only she
had the full faith. On the entire face of the earth she was the only
creature with the complete faith, a most perfect faith without any
shadow of doubt. Even in the immense sorrow that she suffered for the
sin of Deicide, she had absolute certainty of this truth. Serenely and
calmly she awaited the hour of the victory that was drawing near. This
gave her a great joy amid her sorrows.

Since fidelity is necessary for the world not to end, one can say that,
had she not been faithful on that occasion, the world would have ended.
If the true faith had disappeared from the face of the earth, then
Divine Providence would have ended the world. Thus, because of her
fidelity, History continued and the promises of the Old and New
Testament affirming that the Messiah would reign over the entire earth
and be a King of Glory and the center of History had continuity. Those
promises could not be fulfilled without Our Lady’s fidelity in that
period.

All those promises lived in her soul. She became the portal for all
future hopes. In her soul, like a seed, was all the grandeur the
Catholic Church would develop through the centuries - all the virtues
the Saints would practice.

So, we can say that these hours of Our Lady’s life are particularly
beautiful, perhaps the most beautiful of her life. One could ask whether
that time of fidelity was even more beautiful than the period when Our
Lord lived in her womb as in a Tabernacle. Was it more beautiful for her
to carry the Messiah in her body, or to encompass the Holy Church, the
Mystical Body of Christ, in her soul? This is a question that can be
discussed.

"It is at night that it is beautiful to believe in the light"

Her fidelity brings to mind the words of Edmond Rostand in his Chantecler:
“It is at night that it is beautiful to believe in the light.” To
believe in the light at noon does not have any particular merit. But to
believe in the light at the darkest hour of the night, when one has the
impression that everything is plunged into darkness forever, is truly a
beautiful thing.

Our Lady believed in the light in that terrible night as she held His
dead Body in her lap, as she prepared it with perfumed oils for the
sepulcher, as she touched the wounds of His Body witnessing to that
tremendous defeat. Even then she believed in the Resurrection, and she
made a tranquil act of faith. She considered all those wounds of little
import; He had promised He would rise from death, and He would. She
believed. She had not the least doubt.

This is indisputably one of the most beautiful times in her life. Since
this happened on Holy Saturday, we understand why the Church chose
Saturday to commemorate Our Lady. Until the end of the world all
Saturdays are consecrated to her. It is just. It fulfills her prophecy
in the Magnificat: "All generations will proclaim me blessed."

Application to our fight

Every Saturday the counter-revolutionary has the right to ask Our Lady
to have special pity on him because he received a mission analogous to
hers. Indeed, we live in a time that is in the full darkness of night.
We know that the Catholic Church is immortal but, humanly speaking the
traditional Church has disappeared. Further, in almost every sphere of
human activity, we only see corruption and misery. All around us
immorality, revolt, abjection, egoism, ambition, fraud and despair
reign. Everything attests to the almost complete death of Christian
Civilization.

There is, however, a vessel of election, a vessel that Our Lady chose to
be one of glory and honor, a vessel of chastity and fidelity. In this
vessel Our Lady collected the Catholic sense of the past, devotion to
her, love for all the Catholic traditions abandoned by others. She also
placed in this vessel the hope and certainty of her Reign. It is the
vessel of the Counter-Revolution. In this terrible night, through the
blessings of Our Lady, the soul of the counter-revolutionary is a link
between the past and the future.

One who belongs to this remnant believes in her promise. He has the
certainty that the Immaculate Heart of Mary will triumph. This certainty
gives him tranquility amid the greatest sufferings, which is a position
of soul similar to the one Our Lady had on Holy Saturday.

Until the Reign of Mary comes, we are living a long Holy Saturday where
everything that we love lies in the sepulcher - despised, hated and
completely abandoned. Nonetheless, we have the certainty that the
victory will be ours. She chose us, her counter-revolutionaries, to
repeat and imitate her fidelity in our sad times.

This is the prayer we could say to her on Saturdays: O Immaculate and
Wise Heart of Mary, make my heart like unto thine. When everything
around me affirms the opposite, when the world seems to collapse, the
stars fall from the sky and the columns of earth cave in, even in such
calamity, give me the serenity, patience, apostolic zeal and courage to
affirm: In the end thy Immaculate Heart will triumph.

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Go forth confidently then, you knights, and repel the foes of the cross of Christ with a stalwart heart. Know that neither death nor life can separate you from the love of God which is in Jesus Christ, and in every peril repeat, "Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's." What a glory to return in victory from such a battle! How blessed to die there as a martyr! Rejoice, brave athlete, if you live and conquer in the Lord; but glory and exult even more if you die and join your Lord. Life indeed is a fruitful thing and victory is glorious, but a holy death is more important than either. If they are blessed who die in the Lord, how much more are they who die for the Lord!

How secure, I say, is life when death is anticipated without fear; or rather when it is desired with feeling and embraced with reverence! How holy and secure this knighthood and how entirely free of the double risk run by those men who fight not for Christ! Whenever you go forth, O worldly warrior, you must fear lest the bodily death of your foe should mean your own spiritual death, or lest perhaps your body and soul together should be slain by him.

Indeed, danger or victory for a Christian depends on the dispositions of his heart and not on the fortunes of war. If he fights for a good reason, the issue of his fight can never be evil; and likewise the results can never be considered good if the reason were evil and the intentions perverse. If you happen to be killed while you are seeking only to kill another, you die a murderer. If you succeed, and by your will to overcome and to conquer you perchance kill a man, you live a murderer. Now it will not do to be a murderer, living or dead, victorious or vanquished. What an unhappy victory--to have conquered a man while yielding to vice, and to indulge in an empty glory at his fall when wrath and pride have gotten the better of you!

But what of those who kill neither in the heat of revenge nor in the swelling of pride, but simply in order to save themselves? Even this sort of victory I would not call good, since bodily death is really a lesser evil than spiritual death. The soul need not die when the body does. No, it is the soul which sins that shall die.

The knight of Christ, I say, may strike with confidence and die yet more confidently, for he serves Christ when he strikes, and serves himself when he falls. Neither does he bear the sword in vain, for he is God's minister, for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of the good. If he kills an evildoer, he is not a mankiller, but, if I may so put it, a killer of evil. He is evidently the avenger of Christ towards evildoers and he is rightly considered a defender of Christians. Should he be killed himself, we know that he has not perished, but has come safely into port.

Once he finds himself in the thick of battle, this knight sets aside his previous gentleness, as if to say, "Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord; am I not disgusted with your enemies?" These men at once fall violently upon the foe, regarding them as so many sheep. No matter how outnumbered they are, they never regard these as fierce barbarians or as awe-inspiring hordes. Nor do they presume on their own strength, but trust in the Lord of armies to grant them the victory.

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"May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that they have the premises – but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith?The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost and who has won in the struggle – the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith? True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything takes place there in a holy way ..."You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day. "Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray. Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."